Rudolph,
You got that right. Modern day physicists say Einstein refused to accept an ether. What he actually said was that we don't need one to us Relavistic mathematics. Physicists argue that Einstein proved there is no ether but have a look at what Einstien actually thought and said.
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Ether and the Theory of Relativity
Albert Einsteinan address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden
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More careful reflection teaches us, however, that<font color="yellow"> the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether. We may assume the existance of an ether................</font id="yellow">
Recapitulating, we may say that according to<font color="yellow"> the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether.</font id="yellow">
<font color="yellow">According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable;</font id="yellow"> for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring-rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense.
(((For more information about the truth of the status of Ether See:
www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm
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ADDITIONALLY:
The following link gives both sides of the issue. They present this and then try to talk it down but for me I see a tend for ether. The dotted lines would be what we should have seen by a theoretical ether at rest. But something is interfering since we don't see but a fraxction of the affect. BUT THERE IS A MOTION BEING DETECTED AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED.
Statistics "Prove" Ether Exists!
Stone M. H. (1997) Statistics "Prove" Ether Exists! Rasch Measurement Transactions 11:1 p. 541.
Carver's (1993) reanalysis of data from the famed 1887 Mickelson-Morley experiment demonstrates that the hypothesis, "the speed of light depends on the direction of travel through the ether", cannot be rejected even at a .001 level of statistical significance. Thus ether is confirmed and Einstein's Theory of Relativity invalidated.
www.rasch.org/rmt/rmt111c.htm
To see the graphics click on the link.
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge" -- Albert Einstien
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